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I think there's a way for it to be turned off, but I'm tech illiterate. But both parties have to do it ahead of time for it to remain private. Years ago, I sent my brother some money via check. Then he turned around some time later and his wife venmo'd my wife the money back. And it was all over my wife's feed and she was mortified, despite it being not a substantial amount of money, but apparently everybody can see the transaction and the notes. But there's a way to shut it off. She has no problem with selling baby stuff to other moms and whatnot and having it pop up on her public feed, but apparently a brother paying his brother a few bucks is just a bridge too far. Again, i think the sticking point is both parties have to opt out of the "broadcast" for it to remain silenced/shielded. I dunno. Banks still crack me up. "In this day and age of side-gigs, contract work, consulting fees, and fintech...we need 2 years of W-2's and tax returns before we can make a decision based on a random Zelle transaction you made 18 months ago in El Paso at 2am."

I agree with your paranoid ledge perspective in large part. But if somebody could just tell me where/when the civil war is happening, that'd be super helpful. Because I have something at 11:00a

Welcome to stage 2, Ricks of Ohio. Ricks of Ohio on Stage 2. Take care of your waitresses, here we go with some Def Leppard.

can we just merge all these coaching threads into one? The others are non-starters, Pierce is gone with our thanks and best wishes, and Schloss is the new guy in town. We have four competing threads for no reason. I want to get into the nuts and bolts of the program moves forward under the new regime. No need to beat a dead horse in David or pontificate on other "what-if" managers.

I think a guy named Emmitt Smith played for the Cowboys. And was in the news earlier. Should we boycott, or how does this Cowboys fandom work?

Well, now this one I don't get. Here's you. Here's Georgio. What's with the midget over here?

I don't think they gamed this out properly. If you do away with no-fault divorce, you can still get divorced by proving adultery or abuse. There is about to be a big very substantial cottage industry around this. Having men framed for domestic violence or affairs isn't really that hard, even if they're not actually engaged in the act. Seen people set up for far worse with no more than some cash, two phone calls, and a handshake.

There's got a meme in here somewhere that has the Aggie catcher as their AD and his mitt is the contract extension they want to offer Schlossnagle as the UTenn baserunner. Who manages to escape the Aggie germs and touches home plate which is UT-Austin. The Aggies are really not gonna like what happens this November. But backwards gonna backward.

This. I would bet all my rep from this thread and all my Seinfeld DVD's that the writer's room tried to figure out a way to have a scene with Klompus and Frank Costanza (when he was visiting Del Boca Vista), but they figured it was impossible to have those two guys in the same room with nobody breaking. Another thing that goes overlooked on Seinfeld is Jerry and Larry took great care to bring on standup comic friends of theirs to play one-off roles. And the chemistry showed quite clear. But they also paid homage to the Catskill/Borsch Belt days that grew up admiring. Klompus, or Sandy Baron was a great example of that. He wasn't just a crazy Cadillac driving, pen hoarding, cigar smoking asshole. Baron was an improv troupe player, broadway star, played the part of Lenny Bruce, frequent comedic guest on the Merv Griffin show, and often opened for Frank Sinatra and Neil Diamond when they were on tour. A lot of the 'old timers' (spoiler alert, Jack was only 56 when he first appears on Seinfeld, not much older than most of us), were comedic actors that Jerry and Larry and Alec Berg looked up to as kids. While we see many of Jerry's standup contemporaries on the show, we forget how we also get to see them play out their childhood dreams of working with old-school comedic greats. Another layer to the show we are lucky to have witnessed.

Man, the Aggies were having a lovely start to Summer. Now their entire universe is gonna come crashing down between yesterday and the Winter Solstice. You almost hate to see it, but then you remember---they're Aggies.

I love the little detail that Vegetable Lasagna guy has this crap accent for every line and tries to go big with almost all of them. But then when Elaine calls him an idiot, he deadpans in his natural, deep voice, "I can hear you." Those little ticks are what make Seinfeld so wonderful. And by the way, that's my Apple Juice.

fun fact-former ND Senator Ray Holmberg who is in deep shit for using a charity's funds to travel abroad to rape underage children............well his ties to new VP frontrunner Gov. Doug Burgum should become public knowledge. This is about to get weird.

Yeah, once you get out of Chicagoland. Other than Peoria, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign (which is a slightly nicer version of College Station in that it's a communist looking planned university community).........most of Illinois gets real backwards, real quick. Northern Indiana hit a hot streak from the 60's to the 90's, where white folks and people of color worked side-by-side and finally got along. But once those manufacturing jobs dried up, they went back to their cornermen and shit got backwards all over again. I still roll my eyes at my home town of Chicago. My high school experience was a real eye opener that I look back on with thankfulness. Basically an E-W bar from SW Chicago to the medium-in Western Suburbs. Kids of color that took the train onto campus to be put under a metal detector wand to working class kids to students who lived in splendor and drove cars nicer than my parents did. It wasn't until after I moved to Texas that I heard Chicago referred to as the "Black Capital of America." What almost all Americans don't realize is that yes, like your big cities, a lot of neighborhoods are just black, just brown, just Asian, etc. What is unique about Chicago to this day is there are still a lot of intra-white and intra-Hispanic neighborhoods that are segregated. It's just now starting to fade after 200 years. But a "White Neighborhood" to the naked eye, is actually divided up amongst just Poles, just Swedes, just Germans, just Irish, just Italian. The Hispanic neighborhoods are divided up into just Mexican, just Puerto Rican, just Central American, just Western South Americans, just Eastern South Americans, and then the myriad micro-hoods for Caribbean folks. It is at once one of the most ethnically diverse cities the world has ever known. And at the same time, more racially compartmentalized than any other city in the Western Hemisphere. To tie a long Lobo rant back to the thread topic (too late, I know). We have all been to cities where people are educated and affluent and exposed to different cultures but remain racist. We have all been to small towns where everybody looks the same and can't read or write their way out of a wet paper bag, but they were raised with kindness and acceptance because that was the only way to get thru their meager existence and they have no racist bone in their bodies. But who knows, if some of us were born in a different time and place with no education...would be the racist asshole who goes along with the mob? We'll never know. I am no better than anyone else, but I have some self-clarity. I don't know what would happened if you dropped me in a different epoch or meridian. All I do know is racism seems to be full of hate, and hate seems to take a lot of energy. And I've noticed the older we get, the less energy we have. Some choose to become more enlightened and loving, like yours shithead truly. And others choose to expend that energy on more hatred. I'm just a mixed-race asshole with a modicum of education and self-reflection in middle age. I am not an advocate, nor ally, nor even all that engaged. We are simply all stuck here together on a rock hurtling through space around a dying star at 67,000 miles per hour. Find people that make you happy, be kind to strangers, and do not visit cruelty upon the innocent. All the racial shit doesn't really matter in the end. I've held the hands of more dying people than I can count, not one 'em ever whispered to me, "I wish there were less dark people on my way out." Maybe there's nothing down there. No Syrian man speaking Aramaic, no bright light, no Buddha, no Hindi elephant, no Zeus, no Mohammed, no family members calling us home. Maybe we just fade away as nature intended with all the other species. Maybe we get to see into the core of the universe. Maybe I was a racist asshole bigot in a past life. Maybe "my African American over here" was a racist asshole himself. All I know is, on my death-bed, in my most desperate and senile moment, my last thoughts won't be "I wish I had been even more White and mean."

20 hours? What're we, flying to India?

^ This. I'm as adamantly anti-chain as almost anyone. But I would occasionally hit up the Jimmy John's on MLK before heading to campus for office hours. It was quick and easy. But my god, now it's like $12 for a regular sized sandwich that maybe has the equivalent of 2-3 slices of deli meat you'd get from a proper grocer. It's mainly just filled with shit quality condiments and 'vegetables.' For half the price, I can walk across the street to P. Terry's and get a full combo for half the price with better ingredients. I think Jimmy John's saw the Subway model of feeding garbage to the borderline insane and thought, "Hold my Beer."

And that end of work, end of life, Sabbath, heaven master planned community, ready to move in on Sundays...Home Builder for the 7-days of your ascension? You guessed it. David WEEKLY

During a summer road trip earlier this month, was drilling down with my oldest on how to read a road atlas, compass, and watch to calculate distance and time (obviously NAV systems are helpful for road closures and accidents, but wanted her to know how to do it traditional cartography like my ancestors---she's getting good at reading constellations when go out on walks after 9:00p). So she's learning the numbering system, and mile markers, and cardinal directions, and the little digits in between points to indicate mileage distance. And she's learning all kinda cool shit from geography, to maths, etc. And I was so proud. Then after lunch I look at her and she's doing that expand thing with her right hand to make the Atlas map appear larger/zoom-in. And I didn't say anything, just slunk my head in shame. You just learned more navigation in the last 3 hours than 99% of humanity ever learned in their whole lives. And now you think you can make the paper map zoom in by using your thumb and index finger? When the whole interwebs comes grinding down, we are truly fucked. 50% of her advanced 4th grade class thinks the earth is flat and the sound moves around us. Never mind, they have no fucking clue which direction the sun travels.

It would have nice to have seen Montanington.

I had another bowl of this new high fiber cereal from Trader Joe's this morning and had a 'Toilet Shark' of my own. Lobo's bowels were angry that day my friends. Like an old Trump sending back a boat battery at a Marina.

I agree that they are nowhere near of note in terms of prominence compared to football and baseball. But between scholarships, coaching salaries (heads and assistants), travel, NIL, and facilities..."those sports" get into the 8-figures and real fast. So, in a way, we should care

Yeah, was explaining this to my daughter last night watching game #7. It's a big deal in Canada, but half the U.S. teams have rosters made up of Canadians and Europeans. It's just a question of the return address of the player's paycheck is all. Reminds me of this time, i don't fully remember the context. But I was lecturing at McCombs and used some corny analogy between finance and the World Series. And this kid from Asia (NTTAWWT), raises his hand and says it shouldn't be called 'the World Series' because all of teams are from North America, and all but one from the United States. So it's not really a championship series for all of the world. So I have to go on a typical Lobo tangent and acknowledge, that yes---there are other pro leagues around the world but the best from every country for almost a century come to North America to play in the MLB. Foreign leagues and WBC aside, the MLB World Series has the 50 best players and pitchers on the planet Earth. Bar none. Kinda like finance, there are geniuses from Gambia to Samoa, from Tierra del Fuego to Yakutsk. But they are all drawn to handful of cities just like players are drawn to handful of cities in baseball. For the very simple reason, the best want to play with the best and against the best. Geography is a mere footnote to them. That said, I've love a pro NHL team in Austin someday...

I like to think of Russ Hanneman walking into a Vet's office, looking around, pointing to the Great Dane, and saying, "Whoah! This dog fucks! Am I right or am I right?"

True, true. There've been dozens of Federal Judges of myriad benches who've been impeached. Most were discarded, never fully convitced, pardones, or simply lost to time. Ricks of Ohio is about the closest parallel I've studied that comes closest to Cannon's situation. But it's a far second place. But Aileen would do well to note that the odds of Trump winning a legit election in 2024 and upper her status to Courts of Appeal or SCOTUS are about the same as the Democrats taking back the House and retaining the Senate. Which, even for those spineless folks, would spell out certain impeachment and conviction in both chambers for her. Probably even loss of license. Georgia is gonna carry their case through until the end. Democrats may be forced to lay off the D.C. Inciting Insurrection case at some point to "work across the aisle." But Aileen has to understand at some point between the 2024-2032 cycles, she will have to answer for her dodging of national security breaches. Right now, she's trying to ass-kiss and delay for Trump. But at some point in the next 8 years, she knows this will come back all on her because he'll be gone and she's left holding the bag. She's naive, but she isn't stupid.

Fair point on impeachment, but going through myriad Federalist Papers, the judiciary impeachment mechanism was largely performative. To appear 'fair and balanced' and offer a level by which some psychotic, senile judge could be removed. Prima facia, it does not appear to have been installed as a way to remove a federal judge from ruling on a President who appointed her. And one day soon, when this question is taken up the SCOTUS...they will lean heavily on the fact that the 'Historical Precent of Strict Constructionism' of the Constitution does not preclude a Federal Judge from ruling on the person who appointed her, therefore she should be given every wide, legal berth with which to carry out justice. This is it folks, this is how it ends.

I looked at that like 5 times and thought it read "Hot Weiners, Roast Girls." And I thought AI had replicated my porn search history. BoR getting on a call with CdC tomorrow to authorize an offer. No idea to whom/they/them/those guys.